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Roving Periscope: Amid war with Ukraine, Russia struggles against terror attacks

June 24, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Twenty-eight months into the inconclusive war in Ukraine, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and millions of people fleeing homes amid wanton destruction, Russia is now forced to deal with another crisis: rising ethnic and religious tensions leading to terrorist attacks. In the last three months […]

Business

Roving Periscope: “They return to India, and China, become billionaires,” says Trump

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After threatening to deport illegal immigrants en masse, former US President Donald John Trump, whose grandfather migrated from Germany to America over a century ago, has softened his stand on immigration, promising to give automatic Green Cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges to prevent them from returning to […]

Business

Exploiting staff: The Hindujas appeal against the Swiss court’s order

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Kingdom’s wealthiest family, the Hindujas, said they were appalled by a Swiss court’s ruling of jail terms for some family members in Geneva and that an appeal has been filed in a higher court challenging the verdict finding them guilty of exploiting vulnerable domestic workers, the media reported on […]

Business

Global warming: Hundreds die as millions in 4 continents suffer from heatwaves

June 21, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Not only in Saudi Arabia, where over 1,000 Hajj pilgrims died of heat strokes in recent days but in other countries also, hundreds have perished and millions suffered with extreme temperatures now roiling four continents in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet in what could go down in history as the […]

Education

Roving Periscope: Now, Tajikistan bans women’s hijab, and ‘alien garments’

June 21, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The “Arab Spring”, which commenced in Tunisia in 2010 and quickly spread to many Islamic countries against fundamentalism and their monarchies, and forced some Muslim countries to introduce a whiff of freedoms, may now be flowering in the third season. Drawing lessons from Saudi Arabia introducing liberties, and Iranian women fighting […]

Business

Hajj: More than 1,000 Muslim pilgrims die in the heatwave in Mecca

June 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At least 1,000 Muslim pilgrims, including 68 Indians, who went to perform the Hajj in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), died during the last few days because of an extreme heatwave sweeping the Arabian country, the media reported on Thursday. The media reported that Mecca’s temperature on Wednesday was recorded at 51.8 degrees […]

Business

Weather: Monsoon revives, and advances toward North India

June 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a delay of nearly two weeks, threatening agriculture and the economy across India, the monsoon rains revived on Thursday and were reported advancing towards North India to cover central parts of the South Asian country in the next few days, the weatherman said. India’s financial capital, Mumbai, received widespread rains […]

English

The Dragon’s Spell: Malaysia follows Sri Lanka and others, says China ‘true friend’

June 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Refusing to learn from the recent examples of Sri Lanka and other countries, who suffered in Chinese debt-traps, Malaysia has also discovered in Beijing a “true friend” and racing to embrace it. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday rejected the notion that China’s dominance is to be feared, calling Beijing […]

Business

Roving Periscope: British PM Sunak’s Conservatives face worst poll rout in two centuries

June 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Kingdom, which in the 1970s-90s was laughing at India’s political instability, has itself seen five Prime Ministers in the last six years. This was the fastest turnover in new occupants of 10, Downing Street in nearly a century. Of them, London saw three PMs in two months, setting a […]

English

The Hindujas: Worth $20 bn, they paid only Rs. 600 per day to domestic help!

June 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Kingdom’s wealthiest family, the Hindujas with a net worth of around USD 20 billion, have found themselves in the thick of a controversy that could mar their reputation. They are facing trial in Geneva, Switzerland, on accusations of human trafficking and exploiting staff at their Swiss villa, the media […]